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    The UK Parliament votes on Brexit - Tuesday 15 January 2018 - 7pm

    According to Boris Johnson, a new Brexit deal has been struck between the UK and EU: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-50079596.
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    Commercial Awareness Update - October 2019

    5. Hand-picked Commercial News ( by Watson's Daily) Latest Brexit developments UK and EU remain locked in race to broker Brexit deal (Financial Times, Jim Brundsen, Sam Fleming, Mehreen Khan, Michael Peel and George Parker) we see that both sides continue to negotiate against the clock to...
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    Commercial Awareness Update - October 2019

    Welcome to this week’s commercial update! The topics for this weeks write ups are: Back to Basics: GDPR and Law Firms Uber’s Expansion into the Online Grocery Market US Sports Betting Market Neil Woodford’s Investment Funds 1. Back to Basics: GDPR and Law Firms (by @Jaysen) The Story...
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    Slaughter and May TC Response Time

    Hi Julia, I hope it went well! You may find this thread helpful: https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/forum/threads/slaughter-and-may-tc-interview.1500/page-2#post-12257.
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    TCLA's Crash Course - We're running our first event!

    Event schedule is now live:
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    TCLA's Crash Course - We're running our first event!

    Apologies I thought I had already contacted you about this - just sent you an email!
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    Commercial Awareness Past Interview Questions and Topics

    Here's some recent questions candidates have reported back with: How can we maintain our competitive advantage? A friend has £5m and they want to purchase a piece of farm land to develop an amusement park on, what advice you do give them? (This was from a real estate partner at a real estate...
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    TCLA's Crash Course - We're running our first event!

    Thanks Samar, we’re really excited for it as well!
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    Jones Day interview

    Congrats!
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    Addleshaw Goddard

    As Jess said, it seems like you’ve identified clear areas. What are you struggling with exactly?
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    Hogan Lovells question

    You're right that you don't want to just repeat any sections. For this question, really evaluate all of your experiences and don't be modest in the way you pitch it (too many candidates are). ECs/tech and language skills sound like a good place to start, but rather than simply stating them, try...
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    TCLA's Crash Course - We're running our first event!

    Just a heads up guys - we're about to sell out (2 tickets left). Why come? - Learn from the commercial awareness man himself Christopher Stoakes, together with his partner-in-crime, former Freshfields' partner Ben Staveley - Accelerate your understanding of M&A from former Latham corporate...

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